Elias Pelletreau Silver Teapot, ca. 1750 | Vintage Portland | Preview 

You’re in good shape.....All our family heirlooms are store brand whipped topping bowls.

how sad :(

DEW mine are empty butter containers

Nice..you guys rich?

I have an iron skillet from my grandmother. We can’t do delicate expensive stuff in this family. Nope. 😂

Same

Beautiful teapot

Imagine how many have drank from it since ?! Amazing !

I imagine too,.. It was quiet back then, maybe a cow lowing off in the distance, and if it's summer, then maybe, in the cool of the evening, with the days work over, the tea pot rattles a little while putting the evening tea in to steep along with the water which was preheated over a fire, then sit in the cool to sip your tea in reflection. The first sip tickles warmly down your throat urging you to sip again, but you resist, and fill that time instead with other, eventually finishing but in due time, stretching the moment out enough to fill in a small part of the vast span of time faced daily,..., and when the sun is gone, you sit in the dark until the evening cools a bit, and if it cools enough you might even get to bed earlier than ten.

@@randykuhns4515 nice.

She beat up my grandma in 1986.

Touch her tea pot and you'll draw back a bloody stump.

@@charliedsurf1267 🤣 you're fresh

@@danacaro-herman3530 lol..Not as fresh as i used to be.

Do you like to drink rust?

@@mrfester42 It has a porcelain coating on the inside that prevents rust from getting into the tea.

But no, in general I don't like to consume rust, to answer your question.

Show me the money....lol...

If this teapot keeps getting passed down in her family, eventually it will be worth one million dollars!

Jon Lovitz Ahhh, ya, yaaaa suuure ! LOL

lol

It is... it’s the next generation that sells it after grandma dies. Things too nice to use often have no sentimental value. Broke families with expensive heirlooms should often take the cash.

I would agree

I would sell it. Rather have the money on my savings account for rainy days.

......for some sweet stinky weed.

Phoebe Layton but what if you ever want a cup of tea someday? THEN what ever would you do!?

I know my son and his wife don’t want ANY heirlooms that I possess. Sad.

No doubt! Smh.

Please stop with the 'Rick from Pawn Stars' comments. They are so old.

😆

@Jacqueline Rick's mom has entered the chat.

Hahahahahahaha... Spot on...

Must be worth at least $00,000.20!

LOLLL

What do you mean? Is it too expensive? But Odiot weighed 53 pounds, as you said, and it was made probably in the 1850 or later. Although founded in 1690, I´ve never seen an Odiot set from the 18th century.

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@@vonpfrentsch 5081436: French Sterling Silver Royal 9-Piece Tea and Coffee Service, Odiot, Paris, c. 1880 EL1QQ est $12-18000

I think it is because of all the history connected to it. The birth of the nation, the Boston tea party, Paul Revere being a silversmith himself. And this piece being crafted right in that time period.

@@jackmiddleton2080 Just building off of your comment! Elias Pelletreau himself was something of a revolutionary war figure. As Long Island was occupied by the British, he took his family and fled to Connecticut. He was too old to participate in battle itself (at least one of his sons did serve), but he did help with a significant amount of funding.

Dave-- It's your cousin Rudy... I'll be over in a bit to talk about my cut.... HaHa :)

@@WonderWhatHappened 😂😂😂😂

He asked her if it was part of a set, and she confirmed it was. She didn't bring them, and didn't say she had them. So he filled in the blanks "as with many sets, they get broken up."

Don´t take for granted what the gentleman said. E.g. you will find very seldom just EP for electro plated, but EPNS, which means electro plated nickel silver. This advice was useless (at least to me). Also that the silversmith was an Huguenot will not tell many people, what that means (without Wikipedia). It is wrong, that tea or coffee pots where sold as "sets". Why? Because it was just unusual at that time and it would have been too expensive for most people to buy it at once. More important: besides sets for emperors and kings/queens, creamers from the mid 18th century just don´t exist. Sugar boxes have survived. Tobacco boxes have survived. Why not creamers? Because it was not usual to drink milk or cream together with tea or coffee, at least in western Europe. They had little jugs to pour hot water into the drinks, because tea was made as an extract and then thinned with hot water, like in Russia or Turkey. I shoul add to this that my knowledge is based upon the literature I have access to (which means that I have a library and I dont rely on the internet sources) and also limited to central Europe, not including the UK, and a 50 years experience.

@@vonpfrentsch I accept your knowledge. You saved me google time 🥂

@Alan Brown You´re fully right!

This old chick is probably in a seniors home. Old people don't spend much

If it's been in the family for over 200 years you'd be an a****** to sell it.

My parents inherited a gigantic solid oak trestle dining table with drop-in leaves, all hand-carved and with a wooden urn-shaped decoration underneath on a little sort of wooden platform, which had been brought over on a ship from Scotland at great expense by my father's ancestors. It came with six chairs (including one especially ornate one with armrests and a high back). The whole thing including the chairs had been put together without a single nail, all dovetailed joins by some master woodworker. They sold it. I begged them not to, that generations of family who were desperately poor had starved rather than give it up, but they said it was too heavy, they didn't like the style (they preferred IKEA modern), and it was too large for the dining room unless they removed their cheap china display cabinet. They didn't even send it to auction. They sold it through the classifieds for cash to someone who clearly understood its value better than they did.

NoJusticeNoPeace I’m so sorry to hear that...I can understand the frustration that that must have caused you...such a valuable and meaningful family heirloom went away just like that 😢

@@ianlest I like to think it at least ended up in the hands of someone who would appreciate it properly for its craftsmanship.

NoJusticeNoPeace I’m sure of that! The way you described all of the pieces made it sound like a true gem...I’m sure it’s somebody else’s treasure now.

I agree that’s why I always look at everything my mother throws out because she loves to throw anything.

She's a niece, her Aunt had no daughters.

And we get to see it before the next revolution. How ironic!

Or downstairs for selling the teapot

Why ? Next month my mother will turn 99. Probably will make 105. Some relative of my late uncle is 106.

@@axiomist1076 The key word here was probably.

@Mel J Okay....

Ack! Too much reality! 🙉

I'd say that...conservatively...your Aries is worth.....for insurance purposes...$1.98

😂 That's nothin'. My mom left me a miserable, fat, matted persian cat named Joyce. Thanks Mom.

If I could afford it I'd solve world hunger.

Lol

Or blow it on weed and groceries

20 000, that's a new car!

Well obviously !! Rick is taking all the risk here !

D5DRIFT too difficult for you to understand?

The father is black, tho.

But 20k in the S&P 500 with dividends reinvested would have appreciated 256%. This is something to keep in mind when assessing collectibles as investments.

That recent re-appraisal price is what the object is appraisal nowadays for.

It doesn't work that way, if nobody is collecting it the value decreases. Only reason why certain pieces stay inflated is because of the hype an artist has achieved from skill and craftsmanship. This teapot may have a constant value because of the silver content of the pot and it's only 1 of 100 pieces existing on the market.

No. $20,000 has gone down in value due to inflationary prices since 1998. 🤔#Awaken

@@silverschooner5821 Most antiques have declined in real value in the last 20-30 years. They're just not as collected anymore.

Nowhere near. Officially certified by the Guinness Book of Records, the $3 million Egoist teapot is the most valuable in the world. regards

@Peace Freedom. 😅. That's funny, but no way that nice little lady was just so happy to save it for her family which was sweet.

During an exhibition in 2018 they displayed 170 items by Pelletreau. This tea pot was not part of it.

vonpfrentsch thanks!

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Even a destroyed silver teapot is worth a lot in silver value alone.